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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462731303321

Autore

During Simon <1950->

Titolo

Foucault and literature [[electronic resource] ] : towards a genealogy of writing / / Simon During

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992

ISBN

1-000-11669-7

0-203-35891-0

1-280-07218-0

0-415-01242-2

1-134-98207-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages)

Disciplina

194

801.95092

820.9

Soggetti

English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Before reading Foucault; MADNESS; MEDICINE, DEATH, REALISM; LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY; KNOWLEDGE; GENEALOGY, AUTHORSHIP, POWER; DISCIPLINE; LIFE, SEXUALITY AND ETHICS; POST-FOUCAULDIAN CRITICISM: GOVERNMENT, DEATH, MIMESIS; AFTER READING FOUGAULT: BACK TO THE AUTHOR; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Offering a critique of Foucault and the literary studies that have been influenced by him, Simon During takes in Foucault's studies of `transgressive' writing from Sade and Artaud to the French `new novelists' of the 1960s.